{"id":296372,"date":"2019-02-19T08:58:26","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T06:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=296372"},"modified":"2019-02-19T08:58:49","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T06:58:49","slug":"chrome-to-stop-websites-from-blocking-incognito-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/296372-chrome-to-stop-websites-from-blocking-incognito-users.html","title":{"rendered":"Chrome to stop websites from blocking Incognito users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2019\/02\/15\/google-chrome-detect-incognito\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>9to5Google<\/strong><\/a> reports that Google plans to stop websites from blocking Incognito users.<\/p>\n<p>Some websites, such as news websites that utilise paywalls, currently block Incognito mode browsers because they can&#8217;t be tracked by tools such as cookies.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most common ways for these websites to do this is to attempt to use the FileSystem API, which is blocked by Chrome&#8217;s Incognito option as it can be used to create permanent files on the user&#8217;s computer.<\/p>\n<p>Google&#8217;s plan to combat this technique is to create a virtual FileSystem utilising RAM, which ensures that any data is deleted permanently once you leave Incognito mode.<\/p>\n<p>An internal design document reportedly said that once this fix is in place, Google will switch its focus towards removing the FileSystem API altogether.<\/p>\n<p>According to the document, the functionality is expected to arrive in Chrome 74 as an option that users can manually activate, It is expected to become a default setting for Incognito browsers two versions later.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/296292-eoh-lost-microsoft-partnership-over-suspect-contract-with-defence-department-report.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">EOH lost Microsoft partnership over suspect contract with defence department \u2013 Report<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9to5Google reports that Google plans to stop websites from blocking Incognito users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":217834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[3998,57496,1137,57494],"class_list":["post-296372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-cookies","tag-filesystem","tag-google-chrome","tag-incognito-mode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296410,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296372\/revisions\/296410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}